Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
Can have inventory held with airlines for weeks - it doesn't guarantee that the fare will not change
So your argument is that when AA says "held" most of the time it means one thing, but in the e-mail confirmation they send you it means something else entirely?
Once again, I'd love to see them try this argument to the DOT. They don't make any differentiation between holding the fare and holding the inventory in any of their disclosures. This is just an interpretation that you've made up without any basis, which you can tell because it's not what AA actually does (i.e., when AA tells you that they've held your reservation until midnight the next day, they actually hold the fare until that time.)